Saturday is World AIDS Day, and several San Antonio organizations will be participating in the Day With(out) Art, which commemorates the artists who have died of AIDS and raises awareness of AIDS. Amber Ortega-Perez is the co-founder of the SpareWorks Contemporary Dance Company. SpareWorks Contemporary Dance Company will perform work set to music by Chopin […]
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Paste magazine, a monthly for grown-ups who listen to new music — adult alternative, Americana, etc. — has named “Boxer” by the Brooklyn band the National the year’s best album, something of a surprise call, followed by Arcade Fire’s “Neon Bible” and “Magic” by Bruce Springsteen, this month’s Spin cover boys and no surprise at […]
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(Courtesy Photo) George Strait’s Texas flag paper doll. You don’t think of country music stars making paper dolls. That’s kids’ stuff. And that’s exactly the point of Project Paper Doll, an eBay auction of artwork by the stars to benefit Nashville’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, one of the nation’s top pediatric health […]
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As a benefit for the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Jason Jay Stevens and Leslie Raymond, also known as Potter-Belmar Labs, asked 39 local artists to play “Exquisite Corpse.” In this game conceived by the European art movement known as Dadism, each participant takes a turn drawing one part of a figure — the head, […]
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Amy Cappellazzo, international co-head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s, will discuss the current art market in a lecture from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at Artpace. This is the final lecture of the 2007 ArtTalks series. —Dan R. Goddard
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Saturday night (11/24) at Casbeers it kind of looked like the incredible shrinking Band of Heathens. Once upon a time the soulful, award-winning, Austin-based band, an outfit that sounds something like the Band meeting the subdudes, had a four singing songwriter front line: Brian Keane, Colin Brooks, Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist, plus bassist Seth […]
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Chris Sauter’s “HomeMaker” San Antonio artist Chris Sauter has a new show, “HomeMaker,” opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, and running through Jan. 12 at Cueto Project, 551 W. 21st St. in Chelsea, New York. Using materials from his home renovation and contained within a wooden shed, “Workshop” is a cross-section of […]
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Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. A new building for the New Museum. Artist James Turrell has transformed Roden Crater outside Flagstaff, Ariz. A review of John Richardson’s third volume of the life of Picasso. Ken Little almost reveals all in his performance of Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece.” Florian Slotawa’s “One After the […]
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Since George Strait played at the AT&T Center in May 2006, he probably won’t do another San Antonio concert until, say, 2009. So the announcement that he’s kicking off a new tour Jan. 10 in Austin’s Frank Erwin Center is a big deal. Strait, with a fresh batch of CMAs (album and song of the […]
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She’s a fairytale, animated princess used to having all the animals at her beck and call in her fantasyland kingdom of Andalasia. So when she’s converted into a real person, she thinks that all she has to do to round up a cleaning crew for a real apartment in Manhattan is open the window and […]
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